People killed in shootout near British Embassy in Yemen

Associated Press

Published Monday, September 30, 2002

SAN'A, Yemen -- Two Yemeni men were killed and three others injured in a shootout near the British Embassy on Sunday when armed tribesmen insisted on driving their car through an off-limits area, a Yemeni official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fight started when the embassy's Yemeni guards prevented a group of tribesmen, heading to a wedding, from crossing the roadblock in front of the embassy.

A Yemeni guard and a tribesman were killed and three people were injured, the official said.

The tribesmen included sons of parliamentary Speaker Abduallah al-Ahmar and their entourage who were heading to the wedding of one of al-Ahmar's daughters, the official Yemeni news agency quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying.